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Grab your things and your jaw off the floor. We’re leaving.

Never did they think that story they’d read so many times would play out in real life but Gods, it made them want to fish every salacious book off their shelves to see if they could act out those too

They wondered what they would do if they stopped planning the story of their life and started living it instead

It is painful to think that there will be a last time, even if that time marks a new beginning, an altered existence, our lives shifting from one form to another.

It’s hard to redefine yourself after so long of seeing yourself as one way...I never stopped to ask myself if I was happy in that role. If I even recognized myself in that role. I think that’s why I ignored the warning signs for so long. It’s not that I loved him so deeply that I couldn’t imagine not being with him. It was that I lost touch with myself so deeply that I couldn’t imagine who I was without him

A shedding storm: a shedding storm meant that when it ends, when we come out on the other side, we’ve left some thing of ourselves behind. We are no longer who we were.

The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state, but not to protect women or children from the superior power of a men. - Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery

But you will learn their boundaries are not your own